The Sun. — London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

THE NEW WESTERN ROAD. Friday last a highly respectable meeting of Gentlemen and Farmers. of Somerset took place ut the George Inn, Wedmore, for the purpose of inspecting a plan and exa mining a driiug the meeting of a Bill drawn and submitted to 'e meeting bY Mr. Tucker, of Langport, with the view of de termining upon the line of road to. be adopted, under the sanc ti on o f Parliament, to effect this vast improvement to the travelling British public. . JOHN .B.taitow, Esq., the Magistrate, was unanimously called to the chair, and stated the objects of the meeting; after which, Mr. TUCKER exhibited the plan of the new line to the meeting. The communication embraced the following places,—viz. Latigport, High-Ham, ShapWick, Heath, IVesthity, Blakeway, Mudgley, Wedmore, Crick= Elm, Brittscombp Axbridge, and then to join the great western road at Shut Shelve, covering a surface of twenty miles and a half. The exeence of this undertaking is estimated at 0,000/., to be raised in shares of 50/. each and the sum to be repaid out of the produce of four turnpikes to be erected on the line of road; This sum includes the payment of 2,000/. to the commissioners of a certain road already in a state of forwardness from Langport to King's Sedgemoor. • Mr. Tucker then stated, that with the permission of the meeting, he would read them a draught of a Bill which he had framed for the accomplishment of. the object in con templation, leaving it to a Committee of Commissjoners to slake snch alterations as the exigencies of the case may hereafter require.--(hear, hear.)- 7 -Mr. Tucker then pro ceeded to read the provisions of the bill in detail. PETER FRY, of Axbridge, understood that some gentlemen, through Whose landS the line of road would pass, had some time since intimated their intention of giving up their lands gratuitously. Mr. TUCKER submitted that that was not likely to he done, as the lands through which the road' was contem plated had been estimated at about 100/. an acre. Dr. SeEscEtt said, he would oppose the line of road passing through Axbridge. In the first piece ' the drove which led to Axbridge, anti which was intended to be converted into the new road, was only 20 feet wide, and ott either side was a ditch, eight feet wide, and nearly eight feet deep. Mr. PUTER FRY.—If you stated four feet deep, you would be nearer the truth, Eseulapius. Dr. S:PENCER.—WeII, take it at fonr feet, even that would. determine the fate of your short neck if you fell into it. _ _ . Dr. SPFSGEtt, continued.--The line which he would respectfully: suggest would. .be to Cheddar, through Mr.. Long's and the Marquis of. Bath's property, and here he must be permitted to observe, that the Noble Marquis had offered to give tip his land for the purposes of the road, free of expense.—(Great upplanse.)—One of the bridges was, he: said, ' already made ; the approach to it was so picturesque, that the traveller might fancy himself ap proachi»g ie banks of the Tiber. Those who were ad vocates for the road passing through Axbridge had nothing but interest in view. . What, he would ask, could the public.get at Axbridge ? : The only commodity to be ob tained there wag Jaw---(Loud hiughter)—and that was of the -very worst quality, .What man, in his senses, would not go out of the way to avoid law ?—(Laughter.)—He (the Doctor) would admit tithst readily that it was high time the lawyers of Axbridge should "mend their Ways," but they should not, with his consent, do so fa the expense of the public,—(Loud laughter.)—The Doctor now pro duced ,a, plan. of road froth the borough of 'Wedmore, across, the moor to . Cheddar, through Cheddar-wood to Shipham, .Roborough-vale, and thence to join a new.,road making at Churchill, avoiding a very,steep hill, ..Upon the production of this plan, a young man asked "who, in the name of all that is courageous, would venture uyon a road cut through Cheddar-wood ?" " rejoined Dr. Spencer, "any body except . one with a weak head and nerveless heart, such ux you."-(l.oud laughing.)—Dr. Spencer continued, the whole line from Wedmore to Churchill woulci embrace . . a distance of only Live iitilru. seven furiOUra, Six plrtiino, and tern chains. The best possible materials for making the road were near at hand; it .would avoid stupendous hills, and be the means of civilising the miners and inhabitants at Shipharn, who were provethia)ly distinguished far darkness and semi-barbarism. The cio eminence of no less . than 85 carts ping out of Cheddar, laden with vegetable* for the Bristol - market almost every night, the saving of distance and hills, were Aj; subjeetb which he threw down fearlessly .for the consideration Of the meeting oind although the other line of road would be of more advantage, to him and- his neighbours, as far as private interval were concerned, yet having seen vertisement, in, the Bridgewater paper, . signed " Peter Fry, solicitor, Axbridge,' setting forth that an Act would; be applied for to Parliament, for' lighting, widening, and improving 'the borough of Axbridge," he suspected that Alt this would,be attempted in the same act as that which e mowered the making the road : he was therefore deter. m i ll et to resist it, for it never should be said that he sup ported private against public good.—( Loud applause.) Mr. PET.", FRY denied that the people of Axbridge pos sessed any sitc ,lt mercenary views, and added, that be had not sanctioned any advertisement couched in the language alluded to by Dr. SRI-nicer. Dr. SPENCER.—Here . 4 the paper (producing and read, ing it) for paving, widening;' and improving the streets of Axbridge. . (Hear.) - • Mr. Psnit Elm—You said " lid filing." Dr. SeENcEn.—That is one of your quibbles :-..here is the advertisement, signed by yourself—l myself I: 4. I, Johnny Horner, 41 : Sitting in a claim', Eating ChrOtutas pie, 1 , rutin my thumb, • :,•• PuiPti out a plum, 1 , And old, what a toy: am I 1" (Orest laughter.) So it was (continued Dr, spencer) with .Mr. Fry, who • . popped in the advertisement, thought nobody would see it, and thus congratulated himself:— " 1, mysolt, 1 I Peter Fry, ~I ' ingeed the pie Oh good boy am 1 !"— , (Oreat laughter.) M r . w ARDs seconded Dr. Spencer's amendment, • w hi c h, u p on being put, was rejected by one hand.only. A c omm i tte e was then appointed to examine the new li n e o f roa d, an d to r .,?port thereon; and thanks having been voted to the.ehairmali, the meeting broke up. LOGIC:A L FA L L AcIES.-- , A fallacy may be com pared to Kane adulterated cotopouna : it consists of an ingenious mixture of truth and falsehood, so inti mately, blended, that. the falsehood (in the chemical phrase) may be said to lie held in solution: one drop of sound logic is that test, which immediately disunites these, and snakes the for e i gn su b stance risible by pre . " hating i t to the bottom.-I—Copidesion fax Logic, Aincyc. Met. - DOVER, night we experienced storm of wi n d an d ra in. At one heat an almost unprecedented part .of the town , Iliggin- street, at the 4Uttki r t, on the London road, dt,tring the night the wider canoe down from the hills be hina, and restraint, collected in the small holl o ws , and et length b ur st through every a nd rushed in a torrent thro ug h th e street ; the grates of the common sewer soon became elielted, acrd the watchman failing to alarm the neighbourhood, ,er procure aseistenee, most of the cellars were inundated to the ceilings. Th e whole of to-day has been spent in pumping, out the water, a n d hailing.the cellars with buckets. The inconvenience suffered by many faiuilies is immense, but the- real damage done is compare_ Hussy trifling to what might have been expected. As the wind blew right ou shore, it was feared intelligence from sea would be of a inebinelinly description. The only accidents which have reached as as yet are, that part of it tmichiug-boat wrecked, has . been washed ashore On the coast ; and two d the sate description of vessels were Wit morning on the rocks at Ctlaia in a very pre' carious situation. On Sunday last, when the Duke of Devon - - shire arrived, the Cellector cif Customs waited on his Grace, in I l ia capacity, to inspect die luggage; and the domestic, to whom was intrusted the showing of the packages, instead of declaring what each contained, presented the keys, which were ac-. eroding* all made use of, andthe usual search wan gone through,' when about 1600/. worth of contraband pride were seized in the Inoue. More goods were amongst the luggage, for which duty was paid, the duty on which 'amounted to ROL It is to be hoped that his Grace will applaud the honest vigilance of the col lector for the faithful discharge of his duty. LIVERPOOL MEETING on the CORN LAWS. On - Wednesday last, pursuant to previous notice, a Meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool was held in the Town-hall, for the . purpose of taking into consideration the expediency. of presenting petitions to the Legislature for the repeal . of the Corn Laws, oritheir'rriaditication.— The Hall was crowded in every part. All the commercial Gentlemen of the town were present; and a more respect able meeting than this never assembled in Liverpool. The Mavoa (Thomas Littledale, Esq.) took the'Chair pre- Cisely at 12 o'clock. He had convened the meeting in conse quence of having received a requisition, most numerously and respectably signed, and that he was most happy in seeing so many Gentlemen present on the neeasion.—The subject Which they were met to consider was one of great importance, not only to the country at large, bat to Liverpool in particular. He trusted, therefore, thatit would receive the dispassionate discussion due to a great national question. The Town-clerk having read the requisition, and ' the names of the requisitionists, Mr. Ilisrav I:loom rose. In presenting himself to the notice of the meeting in - this early stage of their proceedings, it was quite essential that he should state that he did so in consequence of the absence of Sir John Tobin, who would otherwise have had the honour to propose the first of a series of resolutions, which had for their object to prevail upon Parliament to adopt a speedy and salutary modification of the corn laws. What subject could 1w considered of more importance than to obtain a repeal of the monopoly of the food of man ? It was given in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, 'that 'the best lands under cultivation yielded a produce of front thirty-Aix to forty bushels per acre, whilst the worst lands yielded only eight or ten.' Now, 'as the price of wheat is regulated by the cost of its growth on the worst lands under cultivation, and if it were necessary to cultivate those lands, it follows that we are paying four times as much for our fend as we should do were only the hest lands under cultiva tion. Ilutif arse take a medium between the best and the worst, it will then follow that we pay double a reasonable and necessary price for our corn ; and be believed we did actually pay double • the price paid fOr wheat in any other country in Europe. We might -form no very inaccurate estimate of the burden which the corn laws entail upon this country, from the amount of the duty which, it is insisted, we ought to pay before importation. He believed that JOB. on wheat was the melt moderate duty which had been Proposed as a protecting duty. That was, as he conceived, to keep the price of corn above what it would otherwise be. Now, there are 48 millions of statute acres in cultivation, and if we take the produce at eight bushels of wheat per acre, we have an annual produce equivalent to 48,000,000/., the half of which is 24,000,000/. per annum, which the people of England pay to the. agriculturists. An extraordinary plea has been advanced, that, were it not for their monopoly in corn, the interest of the national debt could not he paid. He demurred to the validity of this pro position. It was very true, that with it diminished rental the agricultural interest could not pay the game amount of taxation. Now, suppose that 25,000,000/. goes to the 'government, would it not be much better that we should have it in our own posses sion, rather than pay it to the agriculturists, that they inay.have the credit of paying 25,000,000/. towards the support of the Go vernment? The tenantry of the country begin to he pretty. well aware that restrictions on the importation of corn, and the consequent high price of food, and that increase in all their outgoings incidental to the poi* rates, are not benefi cial to them ; but if the present restriction is so objectionable in principle, how much More objectionable will it appear when We take into consideration the present distressed state of the country ? And the evil is aggravated, it appears still more severe, when we consider the - distress which the corn laws inflict on the Manufacturer is not compensated by any equivalent to the agri culturist. It is plain that the agriculturist can be benefitted by this monopoly only in so fur as the labourer is able to con sume his produce ; but what can people do when they have not money to purchase that produce ? This was the case, at the pre sent moment, with a very large part of our population. The un employed manufacturer says to the agriculturist, " I ern desirous to exchange the labour of my hands for the produce of your fields. You will not accept my labour. Will you . permit me to export that labour for the corn of foreign countries?" "No," says the agriculturist, "I will not allow you. I will not give you corn for, your labour, neither will I allow you to export your labour to foreign countries, because they have not the some amount of taxes to pay -that I have." "But," says the' manu facturer, "as I have only the produce of my labour to give in exchange for corn, and as you wilt not give me cora in ttuebange, the question is, whether I shall eon,gitue foreign corn or Mu l e." That was the simple state of the question. Neither is it any answer to hint to say, that the pre,eot price of wheat is not-exces sively dear. That is a question with which be has nothing to do. The price of wheat is not a bar to his obtaining it. What he wants is a demand for the prodUce of his industry—a demand which this aoontry does not afford, but which foreign countries could. The broad atl4 graml question of the freedom of trade is one of intense and growing intereat,--pre-eminently so to the ma nufacturer, but remotely so to every individual. such a satire on iegialation as our present Corn Laws, his remained too long on the flitatnte-book. A great deal of misery might be prevented by timely imelfesenre. The Administration is entitled to the thanks of the country, for their measures to promote the freedom of trade generally, and to promote the freedom of the corn-trade 'maim lsrly. It was incumbent on Liverpool, in p4rticular, to declare its adherence to the principlei which have begun to anitPate the Councils of the Crown. Other places may hesitate; they may hold back ; but with the 'constituents of Mr. Huskisson this is impossible. • We owe it to hitu to support that enlarged policy which has struggled into existence tinting his administration. He would, with the leave of the meeting, tnove the first of a series of resolutions, the Abject of which be had thiplained, Mr. N. Routt4son seconded the reaohition. • Mr. W. W. Cullom, in rising to propose the second resolu tion, remarked,on • the striking change in sentiment which had taken place among the farmers on the corn laws. • These men began to have their eyes opened--they began to think that all is not gospel which fills from the landlords on this subject. It was as notch the interest of the farmer as of the manufacturer to have corn—the staff of life, at as reasonable a price as it could be obtain ed. But, under the present system, it was impossible to get corn cheap. The proceedings of this and of other similar meet ings w ould convince the landed interest that the country was alive to the subject, and they would also show to Ministers that, in their attempt to modifr tFils corn raws, they might rely on the sup port ort of the country. MI 041; Wanted was, that earn-should, at • -, times and seasons, be importable into tide country, subject to a taxed, and, he hoped, not a heavy duty. .hre • foßNEV.seconded the resolution, and Corroborated the statements mada by the preceding speaker respecting the man. net in Which out corn lave had tended to promote the manufac turing systinn. of the United Stain. 11, ca n c•a gg,said, he perfectly coiocided its what had been aa ja respecting the progress that America was making, owing to during our earn that was panTrde bill of 1815 was petitione in Congress pri gm.ated c!! in laws. our refusal The i t a o kt ta teri take their n ' 4 against more than any e t h e r in the. House of Como - Mlls, and upon that. occasion rote tine . was In4d in this town, Mr. Leyland's mayoralty, relative to it. The object Afth .. at i l? i ill 1 ig laid been nearly to ruin t h e & rows , It was roost grievous, le i the past year, to.witness the distress it hail Prolog.county , . d otherwise hoe 44.0. of Lancaster and the borders of Yorkshire, while there alas plenty of bonded corn in Liverpool, whudi 000 sup plied to the poor at a ',cheap rate, Ile trusted this con. stanee would show to the Legislature the n ecessit y of an immediate alteration , in the existing corn laws. . • Mr. I s i:nota Pl,Prinbyn, in moving the fou rth reruffiloctiiot lit ground ; adverted to a subject which atone, in h is opinion, was grod for the object of the meetitsg, there was no outer' alluded t.O) the price of gold, which in 1915 woe 4/. 1 . 0, an oun ce, ; aid now only 17s. ed. This • difference, kn ew , was owing of. all to a depreciation In the currency. It was evident, therefore,igamate so that • the state of things was difeytot, and that as .gold daily decreased, tilers • ought to lie a decrease in the psi foals other commodities. on that ground 044 g laws tak „ utore _ that rnvis~x}. Ire concurred its' the view that ear. Whit of the importation of core, in his pamphlet , an d h e h o p ed _ something beneficial to the country would be finally deter min ed (int--.(Applaiose.): .• - • " Mr. Harms proposed the fifth resolution. - Mr. JoalsBstren haul great pleasure in seconding it. Ile felt the impertance of this question in the well-being of the country i t , which We had the happiness to live. The hopes and fears of tarty wan were-directed to what the public voice wnnld say, and What Ministers would do, supported by that public YO4CE, to liberate from the shaekb ei. th e mo s t valuable part of the caporal nitY. (Applause.) Wh at did th e f armer f ee l? It wassail, and very truly so, that the pressure came immediately !moo him ;• and although it . was told hint th a t lie should be promoted, he had since foond that protecti on not to be real. The farmer had been buf, Petted 4.1134 t by the alteration in the price of corn from She, to the h i g h price of i7oe. per quarter, almost trebling the value be.. he had not been benefitted, - that,. in proportion as he tween tine Pe" and another, Ho felt now , there fore, that too b een presets! by his landlord, he -was compelled to grind down those under hint, (Applause.) He felt, that to be sa f e in pursuit of his occupation, he - ought not to lie : driven to the c ultivation of inferior sod. In falsely supposing that b e wou ld be benefitted by the law of 1910, be went with his landlord, which he bad since found nearly reined , him. He also felt, that from year to year his capital de creased, and that as the general state of the country has been retrograding, he found men willing to compete with him in offering still the same high price for the laud. In Ireland a man takes a small piece of land, and if he can only raise potatoes enough on it to support hint and his family, he trusts to Providence for clothes fur them. It would be a lamentable thing to see the far mer of this country, tinder the existing corn laws, degraded to the same condition, ground to the earth by the pressure above him, and the competition below him. Mr. Smith then alluded to the trade which could he carried on in exporting biscuits if the corn laws were modified ; foreign countries were supplied with biscuits from Hamburgh and the United States, while we had a higher duty on wheat than on flour, the manufactured article.: The landlordi themselves had at last begun to feel that an alteration in the corn laws was necessary; they knew now that if 80s. per quarter was a proper limit in 1815, considerably less was neces sary now. They knew also, that high prices were now subject to many - discounts—such as the uncertainty in collecting their rents, MI increase of pauperism, &c. They do not now see the happy smiling faces which they used to notice some years ago, and they begin to consent to an alteration. In the vale of Dent, in the west of Yorkshire, a perfect rural place, he (Mr. Smith) formerly used to notice the happiness that pre vailed there; almost every farmer was the owner of land and call ed a statesman ; but now so great was the alteration that he believed that there was only one statesman in the place. This was the effect of the Corn Laws and a change of currency. If it was objected that the Corn Laws should be repealed, for that it would injure Ireland, he would answer, that he wished there were less exports from that place tq , England, and that corn was at such a rate in Ireland, that the poor man might not be reduced to feed upon that root—the potato. All classes must be desirous of a re peal of the Corn Laws, for they pressed heavily on all classes, on the merchant, and, through bins, the labourer ; on the ship owner, and, through him, the labourer. Here we came at the great mass of the people, who, taken separately, were suffering ; hut, in the mass, the aggregate suffering falls with undiminished weight. If the labourer be worthy of his hire—he who pro duced those •things in which his fellow -countrymen feed—he ought not to he muzzled ; he feels as ardently, though his situa tion is humble, as the merchant or shipowner does. These laws degrade him to the rank of a pauper, .leaVe him but hare walls and scanty food, and drives him to break stones on the roads.— (Applause. )—The labourer had a right to his comforts, but is unable to obtain them. Look at the weavers of Holum, whose squalid appearance denotes abject poverty; who work fourteen ' hourii a day, and who know not the luxury of even a glass of ale, imd yet cannot obtain the commonest food ; this was not an overstretched picture, for he (Mr. Smith) bad been witness to it. The poor weaver and his children were as mere animals, reduced in strength, reduced in spirit, and reduced in all but indignation at their present suffering.—(Applause.)—He (Mr. Smith) would then ask who it was who opposed what they were now met .to as k? Why, it was the unreasonable avaricious landowner. He had described the landlord as beginning to see the injury done by the Corr Laws ; but there were still men who were receiving rents of farmers at SOU a year, who, before the war, only got a third of that sum, and who still enforce the high rents, because they know that other persons were ready to take the land at the same price. Mr. Smith concluded a long speech by seconding the resolution. Mr. ADAM flonasox proposed the next resolution. If it be said it was the duty Of Government to provide all legitimate en couragement to commercial industry, and if it be proved that the coin laws interfered with it, the people were justified in applying to the Legislature to make such alterations as Were necessary. It Was not many months since a meeting was held in this hall for the purpose of subscribing towards the relief of the distressed manufacturers : touch of that distress, however, still existed, and one material cause was the inadequate demand for manufactured goods, which the repeal of the corn laws, in .Lis opinion, would enhance. It could'hardly be expected that people could bear this distress with much patience; they had, however, so borne it, but they were now beginning to see that the price of corn was not kept so high by the interposition of Providence, but by the arbi trary conduct of roan.—(Applause.)—lt would, under such cir cumstances, lie feared, be difficult to procure tranquillity any length of tints. By the effect of these laws, the means of the labourer were much abridged, and his condition degraded; in. deed, be was nearly on the point of substituting the potato for corn, and exchanging his English cabin for all the misery of the Irish cabin. This was the natural tendency of the corn laws. lie hoped that the resolutions of this meeting would go forth as the voice of the town, and materially assist those enlighted mem bers of the Cabinet in the glorious task which they had muter taken.—(Applause.) Colonel WILLIAMS said, that although he thought the gentle men who had proposed the present proceedings were entitled to very great praise as far as they had gone, yet, he thought, had they gone farther, they would have been entitled to much greater praise. It did not appear to him that our difficulties were to .be removed by, a modification .of the Corn Laws. lie wished to see the Corn Laws and all other monopolies destroyed ; but their were other means of benelitting the country than by the introduction, of foreign corn. The overgrown landlords were the legislators. These were the men wko made those laws for the repeal of which the meeting was met to petition. When the pre sent Corn Laws were 11;00441 by the collective wisdom, in 1815, it might be recollected that there was a much greater collective wwiistoeT ttioutporfetvleoontrstitll,:atiin't..t:iiotohrinf,roaldptalisastintghte'hoomeut-iadoew;.eoirtilviee people were put,down by the bayonets of the soldiery, and land lords triumphed. Now the result hail proved that the mob without were much wiser than the legislators within. (Loud and long continued cheering.) The gallant Colonel then went on to point out the oppressive nature of tithes, which the Bishop of Chester had told him came in with the conquest. lie was a cul tivator of corn, and he had to give one tenth of his produce to the - rector of Childwall. Ile (Colonel Williams) had lived in the parish 25 years r and yet lie had never seen his reverence's face but once in a qus,rter pf a century.—(A person in the crowd here exclaimed, " That is because you don't o to church, Colo nel !"—Loud. laughter). Is-it proper; is it just, that the bene fieed clergyman should withdraw 1,200/. or 1,5001. out of the parish, and never do a hand's turn for • it? The Colonel then poiuted out the Game Laws, as an intolerable grievance, and ahbwed how destructive game wile to the crops of the farmer. It was not to the land-owners as bitch, but to the overgrown portion of them, who constitute one entire branch of the legislature, and who influence a majority of 'another branch, it was, to that he ob jected. The gallant Colonel concluded by moving a resolution embodying the substance of his speech. . Dr. Cuourrow Said there were certainly many observations in the philosophical speech of his friend, Col. Williams, that requi red consideration. The corn laws were a ratite upon legislation, cruel to the people, and very impolitiC. It was observed by Mr. Vletcher, that other articles of trade were protected, and so ought agriculture ; he (Dr. Crompton) would not draw any parallel be tween protecting the importationiof corn and the manufactures.— The greet landowner would prom the poor man to starvation ; be would enter into war with France and other countries, but was unwilling himself to pay for these wars, the expences of which he wished to fasten on the poor of England. Gentlemen wished to modify one of the greatest monopolies in &gland, but he wish ed for a total abolition of it, and he would bring forward a reso. lotion to that effect.-.. (Applause.)---Dr, Crompton - concluded by proposing a resolution, praying fur a repeal of the corn laws. Mr. I.:grarot; Slunk, i n a s p eec h o f considerable length, se conded the resolutitio pf M r , C ropper , Dr. owatt-cox persist e d in putting his Wooded by Mr. Milreili4 . rogolutiort, which was Mr. Ctutstx said, as far as the abolishing of the Corn Laws went, lie certainly desired it, but he did nut wish to do justice to one party at the expense of another. Mrp hoped th at t h e resolution would not be put. '# Ill: tegieNtWO Woldd be mute infittenced by seeing the meeting guided by 1101.M4 gild gond vi e w s than by the resolution just pro- posed, which Appealed to the passions and not to . the judgment. The object of that resoluti on could pot lie carried into effect in the present situation of the country. Cuourron.--1 ant surprised at the modification yon pro. " e ' FaOPee rriid, " he would hare no compromise be gAIP9/ PlNlner and roh,,be i y,'. n o I will have none between the Corn Laws and justice, , ,• Mr. Ram s*rrt!, 3.fr. Ana* lionosom, and several others, advised t-tv. Crompton to withdraw his resolution; hut he still persisted. fie said he had p a a hjpetion to be in a mitiority-,—it wa s what he Was accustomed t a ......(A laugh.) the amendment , made a speech, blyrcult.L, W h o seeand4 in which be stray* contend e d t h a t the Corn Laws ought to be w h o lly repealed. ,The object or a protecting duty, he. said, was only to protect such meta a s w ere d e termined to starve the poor. _._(Loud applause.) MAY O . I said such a noise was extremely indecorous ; what- buppress their expression a eyer tleir Were, tkey shoulti thep. Se ~....,_, veral gentlemen wished to speak, but u they. had already spoken, the opposition to their K am addressing the meeting was ver y great. s The amendment of D r . C zomptoot on being put, was lost by; l ar ge majority, and the origival revolution carried. On thanks being voted m the Mayor, his Worship raid hit felt much indebted to them,...Th e Al a tipg then broke up. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock "204 3:per Cent. Red 8? 7,,%% 3 per Cent. Cons. 8 363 ► ,5• 3% per Cent. Ditto Red. .89 % Elk 4 per Cent. New 99 . 14 Ditto, 1826 ",a;ili Bank Long Aim 19 - India Stock • 250 iltitWUonds t 4l 42 pm. South Sea Stock — Old Annuities — New Ditto — Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2cl. 22 23 pm. Ditto 5OO 2d. 22 23 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — Bank for Opening — India for Account 250 Cons. for Account 8330.00; NDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 6 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds — Buenos Ayres Bonds. — Milan Bonds, 6 per ...ct. — Colombian Bonds Ditto 1824 48 1 4 2 Danish, 8 per cent. 61% Greek Bonds Ditto, 1826 lB 1; 71 0 uatimala — Alexican Bonds — Do. MS MS ,i 7 .4 % Neapolitan, 11124 Peruvian Bonds 34 14 Portuguese Bonds 79% Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. MU 7 Spanish, 1821 13,E % ------ IN3 8 French Rentes, k p. c —f. - - -.c. Exchange —t. —c. 3 per cent. Exchange , 251. tide. PRICES OF SNARES AT ONE 0-CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mexican Mining Company £7s Brazilian Mining Company 2O British Iron Mining Company 32% Tlalpuxahua Mining Company l5O United Mexican Mining Company . 25 Alliance Marine Insurance Company 5 British and Foreign Paper Company 3' PRICE OF IRISH flank Stock - Gov. Stock, n' t per cent.... 87 1 ,4 7 Ditto, New ... 4 per Cent. 96 Gov. Deb. 3% per cent B9 IA Consols, 3 per cent Bl Royal Canal Stock . - 0 rand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. --- Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. - Arrived. Due. O America O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadee I Dublin O Flanders • :France O Gottenburgh 0 IL S. Arrived. Per Share. 37;4 39g 5% 200 13 5% 4.:1 STOCKS, NOV. 14. St. Patrick Insur. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto. Ifibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings 1 Guernseyilt Jersey 0 2 Hamburgh 0 Holland 0 0 Jamaica 0 Leeward islands (1 Lisbon 1 Malta 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIUGE TO-AfORROW. Morning WI minutes after 3. Evening minutes after 4. Zbt Sun. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1826. We received last night the . Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday, and the Etoile dated Wednesday morn ing. The latter contains intelligence from Lisbon down to the 2d of this month. On the first sitting of the Cortes, the Minister of the Interior having an nounced that the SesSion of the Chamber was opened, the President of the Chamber of Peers approached the Throne, and presented an open missal to the INFANTA REGENT, who pronounced aloud the oath of the Constitutional Charter. The first sitting of the Cham ber of Peers commenced on the let inst. The Count iYARcos asked if the Marquis DE CHAVES was to be considered as a Peer of the Kingdom, to which the President replied, that , he had not presented his titles, and the Marquis DE VAGOS declared that he did not recognise him ; but the Chamber did not come to any resolution on the subject. The Count DR SAN PAY°, as being the oldest of the Chamber of Deputies, acted as President, but a permanent President was to be chosen at the next sitting on the 2d inst. The news from the disturbed Provinces is extremely favourable, Count D'A TATA writes from Tavira on the 26th October, that he had entered that town on the 24th, and had been there joined by the Minister of War coming from Castro Marino. The Chiefs of the Insurrection had been arrested, and would be punished with all the rigour of the law. Amongst those escaped to Spain, appears to be the Governor. of Villa Real, who first had all the guns in the place spiked. The Minister of War writes that the Por tuguese refugees have been sent by the Spanish _Au thorities towards Ecija in Andalusia. The battalion of the 7th Chasseurs, with . a detachment of cavalry, had proceeded towards Gaico in Gallicia. Such is the substance of the news from Lisbon in the Etoile, and it may be considered as of a. very favourable cha-. racter ; we have never doubted the speedy re-establish ment of order through the kingdom of Portugal, and our expectations are already nearly realised. From Spain the news is of a different character. At Barce lona indications of seditious movements had occurred, which required the vigilance of the French gar rilion to keep down. At. Tarragona, the insurrec tion occasioned by a new Excise Duty, had only been suppressed by the abolition of the duty ; and the whole coast of the Kingdom of Grenada is ravag ed by the Algerine squadron. 'The KING in the mean time, is occupied in processions of miraculous images, and with other objects as unworthy th e atten tion of a Monarch, when his Kinplom and his people are suffering from all the calamities consequent upon bad government. The celebrated Trappist followed the way of all flesh op the 9th ult. From the frontiers of Poland, it is stated, that it, addition to the 20,000 Cossacks, who have received orders to proceed to the frontiers of Persia, several other corps under Field Marshal SACKEN, have been directed to march towards the theatre of war. It seems to be the policy of Russia to assemble an overwhelm ing force - without delay, and at once put an end to the war. The accounts from Constantinople come down to the 17th nit., but furnish nothing new, except the arrival of the . Capitan Pasha in that city. A report from Trieste mentions that the Austrian Admiral FA Imucct had sailed with three vessels to Naxos, where it was said that the inhabitants had massacred the Austrian Consul and his family; but that these people having made an obstinate resistance, ten of the crew of one :of the Austrian vessels had been killed in the affray. The French news is altogether unimportant. The Fnnds have again advanced. • FUNDS.—PAsits, NOV. 14 . -14 " tier Celts., .99f. . f 85r.7. 640 9° . c. 60 9 c 4 . a 6 . 5 9 c. 5e 6 . 0C. 0.01. 99f. 91 c. 9 0 c. ; Tltree per C en t s . Bonk Actions 208 7 f. 50c. ; Naples Rent.c t , 791. 60e. ( 15 e . :70 e . 65c. ;- Cortes Bonds, no price Royal ditto, if . 42 1. ail 531. 52 f.--Exchan ge , O ne mon th, 25f. hoc, ; three months, 24f. 30c. Amongst t h e American Papers recently received, w of the treaty. concluded last spring be tvel find_t'o:f which the following is the substance, appear the Chevalier PEDERSON. I ts l ea di ng provi.; jeent°iaeges Unitedot copy y States and Denm ar k, b y M r . C L AY si °1 - 1 3 s e founded on fair and liberal principles t o and l of red procity : , . 1. The equalization of tormage duties, leaving to the navigation of the two countries fair competition.. 2. A mutual liberty of importation and exportation into an d from each country, in the vessels of each, of whatever may be lawfully imported; or exported, not only from the respective coun tries, but from all foreign countries whatever, with unimportant exceptions. ' • 3. The reduction of the dues payable by vessels of the United States on the passage of the Sound and the Belts, to the rate of those which are payable by the nation most favoured by Denmark. . 4. A liberty to the vessels of the United States to trade between the Danish West India Islands and all foreign countries other than Denmark, in the same manner as Danish vessels are allowed to trade. And b. The privilege to American citizens to remove their property from the Danish West India Islands, subject to no other trues or charges than Danish subjects would be liable to pay on the removal of similar property from those islands to Denmark. We have frequently alluded to the bitter feeling against this country which the Erode exhibits upon every opportunity. The principles upon which the constitution of England is founded are hateful in the sight of the disciples of absolute poWer ; and consider ing the rapid advance which those principles have recently made in all countries, and the success which , at this moment, is likely to attend the attempt tofound institutions formed on the same basis in Portugal, it is not surprising that the organ of a bigotted party , as the Emile Luis become, should vent its spleen with more than compion spite at such an epoch. Under the in fluence of such feelings, the following article, taken from that paper of Wednesday, must have been written. In the shape of interrogatories it insinuates the gr ossest falsehoods—but we believe that the people of France are not blind enough to be misled by such insi nuations ' and that they will see in the whole style of the article, proofs only of the dread which the institutions of England inspire in the minds of a party which es / maintain its influence so long only as ignorance Andrca superstition shall prevail. ..h Reels, Nov. 14.—We lately asked of our Re -L , • Liberals, who prate to us unceasingly of the Unified S tases, Go ther they wish to transport into Franca all the laws of chs vernrnent? We shall now put in detail to those psi who the English Institutions to our own, the sante questiose Would they bring into France that English Which leaves in Ireland seven millions of Catholics del'r, lv ,,, A ? their political rights, and 7 or 800,000 in England or Sou s " .. . " Would they bring into France the Justices of the peace, cOr hined with the title of Peer, and which give a power that ." "." mense, and almost without appeal. We see there Justices of the Peade handing over individuals to their constables to *tee ° R board a man of war t and thus to be exiled fir ten years at lag from England? " Would they bring in the Criminal Laws, so severe that the} cannot be executed, and which visit at least 150 crimes with the punishment of death ? " 'Would they give us in France, by depriving us of our o"e', the armies of robbers of 500 men, which infest the suburb* °' London? " Would they allow 200 sects publicly to establish their W 0 ship, and hear great lividliolders boast of having thirteen religi" on their estates ? " Would they renounce the right of opinion in the Chamber'' and never vote but with their party ? intolerncoei "'Would they introduce into France the law of libeir admitting the oath of the person defamed, allows no proof o f i t" contrary, and condemns the writer who has advanced atruths cause the truth itself is a libel ? - glow 'lie Min' " to roan'filei • Would they allow the 4.. Asters of our religion . 1 ' them occupied with nothing but their'worldly interest*, an" 1, - l with their children, all the charities of the country? ,_., i s " Would they witness an entire assembly, repretennil b o f nation, and receiviug the homage of the book of an •AinPl hi s Hume, who has reached such a delirium of impiety as tong' ' Would they, under pretext of giving liberty human reason cannot prove the existence of a (;od ? of English, refuse it to 800,000,000 of Indians ? rope , " Would they talk unceasingly of Constitutions for Europe, and interdict the exercise of natural rights in Arairi,? . reign rY ":Would they, while ehatterir mlasiogi/ n t I': I° l h of the people, give up to a few l familial the election of thee"' pact fourths of the notional re i nv,s e m a si, sa d twit bid drunk, au a n i of the Members to a populace whichee'they first make then send to vote? ',airport " Would they, instead of our system of recruiting, ti into France the impressment of sailors, and floggi n g ? trials for " Would they introduce into France their public Crim , . Con., and their adultery tax ? 2 „ n os s r " Would they introduce into France the Ptnline . "r - . ing, and the laws against sacrilege and blasphemy ? is la - " Would they give up to the French Clergy the enermoi to 8,000,000 come* possessed in England by the English Clergy ? „ h .,' " Would they see the Sovereign adding ordaining fasts, prayers, festivals --regulating, i n is word . the to the torpors', ~ whole ecclesiastical order; thus uniting spiritual power, which is the only real couhterpoise to 'yr li ' t g " Would they have us leave off dancing on Sunday, of upon the violin, or sporting in our assemblies, under pain prisonment ? i h Ad d t o " Would they transport hither the poor's rates wh-c bit iss the tax upon lands at least 200,000,0001. in a PAP ° of 11,000,000? to his power, 170, -.—... • ~1 at His Majesty'spacket brig Royalist , has grim' - Falmouth with a mail from Lisbon, ,bringing 1011 and papers to the 4th instant, being two dayslater 1115 n the date of the intelligence which reached us hot flir t through the French Papers. Lord BErtEsFon° 1144 arrived in Lisbon on the Ist.: opening The G of a t z h e e ttes co o r f tes th , Riot' b esel an .l9 d thß t °ree he N' p d r °2 Eeed e.o3n i: taii gs n3 of itlitehAelleNtwaP:eiibala.°ofrtais al o id u i n en t e4l ,l' on c the first day of their Sittings, as well as the letter It? A uf iva th ' Nov. 2..—0 n the Ist of this month, Ilsron Donolen:r ij ean:oliniunstacirngfotrheFoffirgeightnoAf tfrhaeirere,belsiutt:::i'llollifiiumucxe: aso,f to present his new credentials, continuing lam °- Charge d'A ff aires of Russia to the Court of Portugal' his th 1 " - Nov. S.—War O ffi ce, Oct. 31,—.11er Hord lii f annexe dSae de fanta Regent, in the name of the King, lode" ti'e se spat& to be published to the army, -well that it snag W.' ~,,,, quainted with its inte ' as tl at the army w i resting contents, a , ' 4ltitig ut know th t *e a rocious manner in which its cotoraaes were and led to crimes hitherto foreign to Portugoe4e soldiers. untint that (Here follows the Despatch of Baron de Villa Sec" , ' inn° tb 4 at his Serene Highness the Infant Don Miguel had taka n oath to the Constitutional Charter.) SITTING q NO' _ n . OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPI.IIO-, h ore _. I going through the preliminary forms of esoniniog t a / po p dity of the returns, i t 'd b • Seob° l. 1 ou t was propose. respectolll • txr o Jose de Silv • - votes as an eira Aqua'', because he had the same mss other person in the province of Minho ; it ws. ho w that he was to be considered the member elected, beeo'4 1101110 years older than the other. .„,seils 1/06°'' SenhorJOA IM ...70QU A ITONIO DEMAGALNALT prOr"+- 1 0 100 to the fo Yng effect :—As b Art. SS of the Charter, ) e is il llowi of either Chamber may be appointed Ministers of SW' viv though Peers retain their seats, Deputies must in such Chao cafe their's, but may be re-elected; and there being ln,t he bola some persons who are Ministers as well as PPnu ee ' - the not this point be decided upon before the Chamber chose 0. deputies to be presented to the Princess Regent, as cmulitl!rl„, the office of President. Some discussion arose on this subl ec , re . Sen. Cardeiro said, that all the present Ministers Were sn c or vious to their election ; as deputies, consequently, the" „ c° , : l ,,, s tei no doubt respecting the validity of their election. The ".- ~,,i of Justice alone had been appointed s i nce his e lection , but lie Or only appointed ad interim, and therefore comprehendell to, ssd art. which allows deputies to be appointed to any eoli l "" when the public service requires. tes O r After some debate on the mode of choosing fi ve csodidit the office of President, and of five others for that of Vies -I I : I , i dent—the former fi ve were named the t . a u °f the I ; note on t was deferred on account of the lateness of the hour. . his Nov. 4,—Despatelies from the Minister of war stutoong4oba, arrival at Olhao and Faro; he s peaks in high terms of the tiro, bitants of Algarve, and declares, that having visited ms°Y, l ;,.i s eil and made some stay in the towns, he thinks himself son' ~,,j to assert, that the rebellion of Tavirs was wholly roilitart 071.0 aided by some Magistrates and other public officers, utost °I, ~„0 , . natives of other provinces ; and that; here went not 20 j5 .. *: .. ...., vians, not public o ffi cers, who were ipiceted in the rebeu w _d s ,ct He especially commends the clergy, and highly wises the con •of his troops. eMPl u r a The sitting of the Chamber o f Peers on the Sit was